{"id":1939,"date":"2026-06-13T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/why-some-usb-ports-are-purple-and-why-theyre-rarely-sold-in-the-us\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T13:30:00","slug":"why-some-usb-ports-are-purple-and-why-theyre-rarely-sold-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/why-some-usb-ports-are-purple-and-why-theyre-rarely-sold-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Why some USB ports are purple (and why they&#8217;re rarely sold in the US)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever looked at a USB connector or port and wondered why it was that color?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/why-some-usb-ports-are-purple-and-why-theyre-rarely-sold-in-the-us\/intro-1781033807.jpg\" \/><\/p><p>Please credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\">OBA Blog<\/a> &raquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/why-some-usb-ports-are-purple-and-why-theyre-rarely-sold-in-the-us\/\">Why some USB ports are purple (and why they&#8217;re rarely sold in the US)<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever looked at a USB connector or port and wondered why it was that color? Please credit: OBA Blog &raquo; Why some USB ports are purple (and why they&#8217;re rarely sold in the US)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}